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[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from “Legion” Season 2, Episode 2, “Chapter 10.”]

Ana Lily Amirpour, director of the acclaimed “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” and the bonkers follow-up “The Bad Batch,” is not a filmmaker who falls meekly within any prescribed box. Therefore, she found her perfect television match in Noah Hawley’s imaginative adaptation of Marvel’s “Legion.”

“It has to be the right thing and the right type of collaboration for them to want my crazy ass to come in there and do what I can do,” Amirpour said in an interview with IndieWire. “I don’t think you can really call ‘Legion’ TV. I feel like it’s an experience. It’s about exploring sanity and madness and perception. Cinema is such a powerful way to do that.”

Amirpour came on for this season’s second episode, in which David Haller (Dan Stevens) is conflicted about helping the psychic parasite and mutant Amahl...

Late night moves! Fox is shuffling everything around! Dark Phoenix, Bohemian Rhapsody, New Mutants, all of it, musical movie chairs!

According to Jeff Snieder over at The Tracking Board, Fox is making some late night moves. Late Monday night they began shuffling around their upcoming releases. Including 2 X-Men films, and the Queen front man biopic.

Dark Phoenix was slated for Nov. 2, 2018, and is now pushed back to Feb. 14, 2019. Not necessarily a prime release date in the past, but thanks to films like Black Panther, and Deadpool, it isn’t the death sentence it used to be.

Meanwhile Bohemian Rhapsody, the biopic about Queen front man Freddie Mercury, staring Rami Malek (Mr. Robot), moves from Christmas Day to takeover Dark Phoenix’ original release date Nov 2, 2018.

Icing on the cake is that New Mutants once again moves dates. The Josh Boone Mutant/Horror film, which was originally supposed to hit next month,...

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With the fine coming of age romantic drama Call Me By Your Name now in limited release, audiences can join critics in swooning over the revelatory work of Timothée Chalamet's as the preternaturally sophisticated but hormonally confused Elio. He won the Gotham Awards "Breakthrough" award last night. Should his incredible performance earn him an Academy nomination for Best Leading Actor, he will be the third youngest man to ever receive that honor (he turns 22 the day after Christmas)...

Only Mickey Rooney and Jackie Cooper were younger in their Oscar races and both happened in Oscar's first dozen years (!) when the Academy's habits and fetishes and aversions were still being sorted out. They quickly turned against really young actors. While many women have won Best Actress in their 20s, it's only happened once for a man. The youngest...

As awards season takes over Hollywood, keep up with all the ins, outs, and big accolades with our bi-weekly Awards Roundup column.

-The 29th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) will present Timothée Chalamet with the Rising Star Award – Actor at its annual Film Awards Gala for his performance in “Call Me by Your Name.” The Film Awards Gala, hosted by Mary Hart, will be held Tuesday, January 2 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The Festival runs January 4 – 15, 2018. Past recipients of the Rising Star Award include Ruth Negga, Alicia Vikander, Jennifer Lawrence, Scarlett Johansson, Anna Kendrick, Dakota Fanning, Terrence Howard, and Adam Beach.

“Timothée Chalamet gives a stirring performance as Elio, a 17-year-old on the brink of passion and self-discovery. It’s an intimate and erotic performance that transports the audience to another time and place and stays with us long after we’ve left the theater,” said Festival...

David Lowery directed one of the best-reviewed movies of the year with “A Ghost Story.” Now, he’s doing something about as different as you can get.

CBS All Access announced at the Television Critics Association press tour on Tuesday that their latest slate of original programming will include “Strange Angel,” a new show following the life of Jack Parsons.

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The series, created by “Black Swan” writer Mark Heyman, will chart the life of Parsons, who helped to pioneer rocket engineering in America. As chronicled in George Pendle’s 2006 book, Parsons was “a mysterious and brilliant man in 1940s Los Angeles, who by day helps birth the entirely unknown discipline of American rocketry, and by night is a performer of sex magick rituals and a disciple to occultist Aleister Crowley,...

It’s a strong group of limited releases for a July weekend: Kathryn Bigelow’s “Detroit,” “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” and the Yiddish-language “Menashe” all performed well, as did Sony Pictures Classics’ “Bigsby Bear.”

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Detroit (Annapurna) – Metacritic: 86

$365,455 in 20 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $18,273

Kathryn Bigelow’s first film since “Zero Dark Thirty” is the first released by Megan Ellison’s production company through its own distributor. With reviews nearly as strong as “Zero” and “The Hurt Locker” but shifting to the home front in this recounting of the Detroit riots exactly 50 years ago, this opened in 10 markets ahead of its wide release this Friday. This is a tough subject, however well received, and Annapurna and its team has a challenge opening this outside of the festival/awards season and finding a wide swath of African-American and other upscale audiences.

Read More‘Detroit’ Review: Kathryn Bigelow’s...

The History Channel is about to add a breakthrough development to the mystery surrounding Amelia Earhart’s disappearance. The upcoming documentary “Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence,” which premieres on Sunday, July 9, includes photo evidence suggesting Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan survived the plane crash and became Japanese prisoners of war. The photo can be seen by heading to People.

Read More: ‘Breakthrough’: Ana Lily Amirpour on How She Was Lured to Create an Animated Cancer Monster for Nat Geo

Former FBI executive assistant director Shawn Henry is behind the documentary, which attempts to finally answer what happened to Earhart and Noonan after their plane went down in the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937. The photo was discovered by former U.S. Treasury Agent Les Kinney in 2012 and is revealed for the first time in the documentary.

The image shows Earhart and Noonan on a dock, with the duo’s Lockheed airplane aboard a ship.

A celebration of all things that go bump in the night (and the people who fight those bumps in the night) in the genre world, the 43rd Annual Saturn Awards took place last night in Burbank, and both sides of the "march to war" in The Walking Dead were well-represented.

In addition to winning Best Horror TV Series, The Walking Dead was rewarded with Best Actor on Television (Andrew Lincoln) and Best Guest Star on Television (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Read on for the full list of winners, which also include Millie Bobby Brown, Riverdale, Westworld, and many more:

Press Release: Burbank, Calif. – June 28, 2016 – The 43rd Annual Saturn Awards celebrated the best and the brightest in genre entertainment tonight, with Lucasfilm/Disney’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story capturing three statuettes in the Film Category, tying with Paramount’s science fiction thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane. One of the entertainment industry’s most highly-anticipated evenings,...

It’s fitting that “Predicting the Future,” the latest episode in the National Geographic docuseries “Breakthrough,” probably didn’t turn out the way that anyone involved had planned it would. Not ten minutes into the episode, there’s polarizing statistician Nate Silver, in an interview from weeks, maybe even months, before the 2016 presidential election, with his take on the numbers.

“Most people, when you say 70/30, they don’t quite know that means. They don’t know what that 30 percent feels like,” Silver says.

Six months into the reality of that 30 percent probability, there’s a dark push-pull happening in this episode. As professionals from various predictive industries — actuaries, astronomers, city sanitation experts — give the audience a glimpse into their corner of the future, there’s the unspoken acknowledgment that people may not like what they find. As a result, “Predicting the Future” ends up presenting the viewers with competing visions of the future,...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

– Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to “The Little Stranger,” excluding the U.K., France and Switzerland, where it will be distributed by Pathé. Academy Award nominee Lenny Abrahamson (“Room”) will direct the film, a chilling ghost story, which will begin production in the U.K. this summer for release in 2018. “The Little Stranger” will star Academy Award nominee Charlotte Rampling, Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson and Will Poulter. Lucinda Coxon, who wrote the screenplay adaptation of Focus’ “The Danish Girl,” has adapted “The Little Stranger” from Sarah Waters’ acclaimed 2009 novel of the same name.

In a remote English village after the close of World War II, a local practitioner, Dr. Faraday (Gleeson), is called to the...

Albert Einstein: physicist, Nobel laureate, romantic and … owl? Trying to get a handle on the complex person whose name is literally synonymous with genius was the biggest challenge for Nat Geo Channel’s first scripted anthology series, which even has the title “Genius.”

Einstein was best associated with his theory of relativity, which is one of the two pillars of modern physics, and his mass-energy equivalence formula, E=mc². Beyond the science and iconic shock of grey hair, though, was a man who started out very differently from how we now perceive him.

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“The goal of the show is to really humanize, get under the skin of Albert Einstein,” showrunner Ken Biller said. “We discovered that he lived this big, bold, brash, complicated, messy life.”

Einstein as a...

Art meets science on Nat Geo’s series “Breakthrough,” when critically acclaimed filmmakers like Ana Lily Amirpour decide to put their skills into telling stories about the latest innovations and how they can change our lives.

The “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night” director spoke to IndieWire about why she decided to direct an episode of the series, which returns for a second season on Tuesday, May 2.

“I was excited to collaborate with Nat Geo because I’ve been a fan of since I was a kid; I grew up watching shows on nature and science with my Dad, who’s also a big fan,” she said. “And when I sat down with the producers of ‘Breakthrough,’ discussing possible topics I could tackle, I found myself drawn to the topic of cancer treatment without really knowing why.

Read More: IndieWire and FilmStruck’s ‘Movies That Inspire Me’: Ana Lily Amirpour...

Tuesday, May 2 “Fresh Off the Boat,” 9 p.m. on ABC

Episode Title: “Pie vs. Cake”

Synopsis: Jessica is thrilled to hear Evan is interested in joining the debate team. Yet, when her protégé becomes so good that he beats her at her own game, she second-guesses her worth. Meanwhile, Eddie and Emery team up to enter a comic book contest.

Why You Should Watch: “Fresh off the Boat” is on the bubble and It Shouldn’T Be On The Bubble. But also tune in for the cameo by Stan Lee, who, of course, is playing Stan Lee circa 1996 – and yet didn’t have to change his look at all. The guy is ageless. And will continue to never say “no” to popping up anywhere, at any time.

Read More: How ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Tells The Untold Story of ’90s Sitcom Moms

“The Americans,” 10 p.m. on FX

Episode Title:...

‘American Gods’

It’s been a long time coming, but American Gods is finally here, closing out a month that’s been filled with exciting new shows. With May, though, comes the return of a science program that ought to interest movie fans (Breakthrough) and a new feature documentary that ought to interest comic book fans (Batman & Bill). Plus we’ve finally got a new season of Sense8 and new episodes of some of the greatest TV series, Better Call Saul and Fargo, plus the penultimate chapter of Riverdale’s first season.

To help you keep track of the most important programs over the next seven days, here’s our guide to everything worth watching, whether it’s on broadcast, cable, or streaming for April 30–May 1:

SUNDAYAmerican Gods (Starz, 9pm)

Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel hits the small screen from the showrunning team of Bryan Fuller (Hannibal) and screenwriter Michael Green (Logan), and it’s “the adaptation...

Breakthrough is coming back. This week, National Geographic Channel announced season two of the TV series will debut in May.From Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, the docuseries "shines a light on the world's leading scientists and how their cutting-edge innovations and advancements will change our lives in the immediate future and beyond. Season two will feature Chris Pine, Aaron Eckhart, and Jk Simmons as narrators.Read More…...

In any given year, since Kathryn Hahn debuted in 2003’s How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, she has had at least two to three films in theaters, not to mention her many notable TV roles. And 2016 was no different, with the release of the R-rated comedy Bad Moms, the Screen Actors Guild-nominated Captain Fantastic with Viggo Mortensen and Adam Sandler’s The Do-Over, as well as a recurring role on Transparent and landing a new comedy, I Love Dick. (Both series are on Amazon.)

A true working actress, Hahn delivers every time. “It’s why I got in this mess in the first place,” she tells Et. “I was able to play all those different parts and take swings.”

More: 'Transparent' Star Melora Hardin Finds the Magic in the Meltdown

While she’s managed to escape any obvious typecasting, the actress shines in comedies, which she credits director Adam McKay, whom she worked...

10 awards contenders you must watch for 201610 awards contenders you must watch for 2016Adriana Floridia12/12/2016 2:50:00 Pm

It's the end of the year, meaning awards season is in full force and everywhere, everyone is talking about the big buzz-worthy movies of 2016. As many of these movies haven't been out for very long, it's hard to know what's a must-see and what's a long shot! Luckily for you, we have a good sense of which movies you'll want to see so that you can be a part of the conversation, and we're sharing our picks with you!

We're getting a head start this year, as we've made our bets on the ten must-see films of the season just as the Golden Globes have dropped their nominations. So far, the following ten films have picked up accolades from critics groups and film boards. We're pretty confident we'll hear these films called all throughout the awards race,...

Wes Anderson surprised fans earlier this week with his heartwarming Christmas short film for H&M, and now the CineFix team (via The Film Stage) is keeping the Anderson goodies coming with a hilarious mash-up that combines the stylings of the director with the world of Robert Eggers’ “The Witch.” Anderson’s playful tone is perhaps the farthest thing from Eggers’ palpable sense of dread, so seeing both of these indie worlds collide is absurdly hilarious.

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The video is the latest in what has become a cinephile tradition of creating trailer parodies directed by Wes Anderson. Classics like “Scream,” “Harry Potter” and “X-Men” have all received the Wes Anderson treatment in recent years, and it’s a testament to his unique style that his aesthetic can be applied so endearingly to films of all different genres.

“The Witch...

The precursors are coming in hot and heavy folks. Yesterday, the National Board of Review chimed in with their picks. Also, the Satellite nominations came out, so I’ll share them with you as well. First up, as you’ll see below, Nbr basically crowned Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea in as many places as they could. This more or less continues to solidify it as a Best Picture nominee when the Oscars come around. As expected, Casey Affleck took Best Actor for the film as well, with Lonergan getting Best Original Screenplay, while Lucas Hedges was Breakthrough Male. Barry Jenkins got a Best Director prize for Moonlight, which also saw Naomie Harris win Best Supporting Actress. Also of note was Amy Adams getting Best Actress for Arrival, Jeff Bridges winning Best Supporting Actor for Hell or High Water, as well as Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese scoring...

The National Board of Review has named Manchester By The Sea 2016’s Best Film of the Year, it was announced today, along with the organization’s other year-end honors.

Below is a full list of the 2016 award recipients announced by the National Board of Review:

Best Film: Manchester by the Sea

Best Director: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight

Best Actor: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea

Best Actress: Amy Adams, Arrival

Best Supporting Actor: Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water

Best Supporting Actress: Naomie Harris, Moonlight

Best Original Screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea

Best Adapted Screenplay: Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese, Silence

Best Animated Feature: Kubo and the Two Strings

Breakthrough Performance (Male): Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea

Breakthrough Performance (Female): Royalty Hightower, The Fits

Best Directorial Debut: Trey Edward Shults, Krisha

Best Foreign Language Film: The Salesman

Best Documentary: O.J.: Made in America

Best Ensemble: Hidden...

"Manchester by the Sea" is off to a great start this awards season. The Kenneth Lonergan film was chosen as the Best Film of 2016 by the National Board of Review. Casey Affleck also won Best Actor and Lonergan took home the Best Screenplay award while Lucas Hedges was named the Breakthrough Performance (Male) of the Year.

(Check out my interview with Lucas Hedges for "Manchester by the Sea" here, and with Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams here)

Check out the full list of the winners of this year's Nbr awards:

Best Film: .Manchester By the Sea.

Best Director: Barry Jenkins, .Moonlight.

Best Actor: Casey Affleck, .Manchester By the Sea.

Best Actress: Amy Adams, .Arrival.

Best Supporting Actor: Jeff Bridges, .Hell or High Water.

Best Supporting Actress: Naomie Harris, .Moonlight.

Best Original Screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan, .Manchester By the Sea.

Best Adapted Screenplay: Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese, .Silence.

Best Animated Feature:...

Barry Jenkins wins best director for Moonlight; Casey Affleck, Amy Adams scoop top acting awards.

The National Board Of Review (Nbr) on Tuesday declared Amazon Studios’ Manchester By The Sea its best film of 2016 as it honoured the drama with four awards.

Even though Nbr best film winners seldom go on to claim the best picture Oscar – one must go back to 2009 and Slumdog Millionaire for the last time that happened – the accolade confirms this drama and Monday’s Gothams victor Moonlight as the early awards season heavyweights, a view that the oncoming rush of critics groups awards could very well endorse.

It is notable too that there was a complete shut-out of La La Land and Fences, while Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese took adapted screenplay honours for Paramount’s little-seen Silence.

Besides the top accolade Manchester By The Sea also earned best actor for Casey Affleck, original screenplay for Kenneth Lonergan, and breakthrough...

The National Board of Review has named Kenneth Lonergan’s heartbreaking drama “Manchester By the Sea” the best film of 2016, while also awarding the filmmaker the Best Original Screenplay award for his script. Star Casey Affleck also pulled in the Best Actor win, while Amy Adams was awarded Best Actress for her turn in “Arrival.”

Best Director was awarded to Barry Jenkins for his indie favorite “Moonlight,” while his star Naomie Harris was given the Best Supporting Actress win. Another indie standout, “Hell or High Water,” earned a Best Supporting Actor win for Jeff Bridges. “Manchester” standout Lucas Hedges picked up the Breakthrough Performance (Male) accolade, while “The Fits” star Royalty Hightower picked up the Female version of the award.

Read More: National Board of Review Wins For ‘Manchester’ Can Mean Oscar Momentum, But It’s Not a Lock — Analysis

Other big awards were handed out to “Kubo and the Two Strings...

On the heels of Cahiers du cinéma’s top 10 films of the year, the National Board of Review has now revealed their picks for the best of the year, topped by Kenneth Lonergan‘s Manchester by the Sea.

For those unfamiliar with the organization, “for 107 years, the National Board of Review has dedicated its efforts to the support of domestic and foreign cinema as both art and entertainment. This year, over 250 films (studio, independent, foreign-language, animated, and documentary) were viewed by this select group of film enthusiasts, filmmakers, professionals, academics, and students.”

Check out their winners below.

Best Film: Manchester by the Sea

Best Director: Barry Jenkins, Moonlight

Best Actor: Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea

Best Actress:Amy Adams, Arrival

Best Supporting Actor: Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water

Best Supporting Actress: Naomie Harris, Moonlight

Best Original Screenplay: Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea

Best Adapted Screenplay: Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese,...

National Geographic Channel has ordered a second season of Breakthrough, executive produced by Imagine Entertainment and Asylum Entertainment, for premiere in spring 2017. The anthology series focuses on the world's leading scientists and how their cutting-edge innovations and advancements change lives in the immediate future and beyond. Brendan and Emmett Malloy join the executive producing team for Season 2 and also will direct. Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Michael…...

Plus: Lowriders to open La Film Festival; Alamo Drafthouse to open in Downtown Brooklyn; and more…

Disney’s Zootopia crossed $800m worldwide on Tuesday to stand at $523m internationally and $276.7m in North America.

The family hit currently ranks as the biggest global industry release of the year-to-date, the second biggest Walt Disney Animation Studios release of all time in its original release behind Frozen, and the third biggest overall behind Frozen and The Lion King.

Zootopia is also Disney’s sixth biggest animated release of all time and the industry’s fifth biggest original IP animated film ever, climbing to the fourth biggest not counting re-releases.

Ricardo de Montreuil’s Lowriders will open this year’s La Film Festival produced by Film Independent. Brian Grazer and Jason Blum produce the drama set in the Latino car culture and starring Eva Longoria and Demián Bichir. Ryan Coogler is this year’s festival guest director, and [link=nm...

In an unprecedented partnership, National Geographic Channel and Ge present the new series "Breakthrough," produced by Imagine Entertainment and Asylum Entertainment, described as a revolutionary new series about scientific explorers from leading universities and institutions and how their cutting-edge innovations and advancements will change our lives in the immediate future and beyond. The series intends to bring to life the stories, people and technology behind these breakthroughs, and show how they are changing our world. Each hour-long episode is directed by a Hollywood filmmaker - Angela Bassett, Peter Berg, Paul Giamatti, Akiva Goldsman, Ron Howard and Brett...

Attention, Emmy voters and fans: A new TV documentary series full of dazzling scientific observations debuts tonight on the National Geographic Channel – "Breakthrough" – and bears obvious similarity to a recent Emmy-sweeper that aired on the same network: "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey." Two years ago "Cosmos" scored 12 Emmy nominations and 4 wins by exploring secrets of the universe, quantum physics, time, gravity and mankind's miniscule place in all of it. Now people are the chief focus of "Breakthrough" as it chronicles how mankind is being transformed by marvels of science. Six acclaimed directors tackle six hot topics: -Break- "Fighting Pandemics" (directed and narrated by Peter Berg) Premieres Nov. 1 at 9 p.m. Et/8 p.m. Ct "More Than Human" (directed and narrated by Paul Giamatti) Premieres Nov. 8 at 9 p.m. Et/8 p.m. Ct "Decoding the Brain" (directed by B...'...

Imagine Entertainment’s Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are doing something different with their upcoming National Geographic Channel series, “Breakthrough.” But the longtime producing partners say that might be exactly what the TV industry needs. In the era of “too much TV,” Grazer argues that people taking risks is what will help the industry survive. “People just have to make quality programs,” he said in an interview with TheWrap. “Taking chances usually will produce some trend creation that is really valuable to our business.” Howard added that because “Breakthrough” has the potential to stand out. Also Read: Jason Bateman, Adrien Brody Narrate Nat Geo's.

The six-episode, science-meets-storytelling series Breakthrough airs Sundays beginning Nov. 1 on National Geographic Channel. With multitasking cellphones in our pockets, artificial knees and hips a normal part of the aging process, and instant access to lifesaving vaccines, Americans are easily inured to the daily wonders of science. Breakthrough, a stirring, six-episode series from National Geographic Channel — in partnership with Ge, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment, Asylum Entertainment and eager celebrity guest directors — aims to change that, one awe-inspiring innovator at a time. Each hour of Breakthrough takes viewers into the workspaces of today’s most diverse and … Continue reading →

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The Live Inaugural Hollywood Film Awards Television Broadcast Aired Nov. 14, 2014 on CBS. 2014 honorees included some of the biggest names in Hollywood such as Keira Knightley, Michael Keaton, Steve Carell, Benedict Cumberbatch, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Shailene Woodley, Eddie Redmayne, Jean-Marc Vallée, Julianne Moore, Robert Duvall, Jack O’Connell, Mike Myers, Chris Rock and many more. “The first mandatory stop … in the awards season” – New York Times “The Hollywood Film Awards has become a pre-Oscar showcase” – Los Angeles Times “The Race Is On! The Hollywood Awards Launch the Push toward Oscar” – Associated Press Who: Host Queen Latifah, and Hollywood Career Achievement Award winner Michael Keaton, presented by Geena Davis; Hollywood Film Award winner “Gone Girl,” accepted by Ben Affleck, presented by Ron Howard; Hollywood Director Award winner Morten Tyldum for “The Imitation Game,” presented by Robert Pattinson; Hollywood Actor Award winner Benedict Cumberbatch for “The Imitation Game,” presented by Amy Adams...

In an unprecedented partnership, National Geographic Channel and Ge present the new series "Breakthrough," produced by Imagine Entertainment and Asylum Entertainment, described as a revolutionary new series about scientific explorers from leading universities and institutions and how their cutting-edge innovations and advancements will change our lives in the immediate future and beyond. The series intends to bring to life the stories, people and technology behind these breakthroughs, and show how they are changing our world. Each hour-long episode is directed by a Hollywood filmmaker - Angela Bassett, Peter Berg, Paul Giamatti, Akiva Goldsman, Ron Howard and Brett...

Jason Bateman and Adrien Brody will narrate episodes of National Geographic Channel’s “Breakthrough” featuring directors Akiva Goldsman, Brett Ratner, and TheWrap has exclusive first look at the trailer for the series. The scientific series — executive produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Steve Michaels, Jonathan Koch and Mark Dowley — documents leading explorers’ cutting-edge innovations and advancements and how those achievements will impact lives in the future. “Breakthrough” specifically focuses on discoveries in brain science, longevity, water, energy, pandemics and cyborg technology. Also Read: Bill O'Reilly's 'Killing Reagan' Heads to Nat Geo From Producer Ridley Scott Presented by Nat Geo and Ge,...

We haven't seen detective Axel Foley on the big screen for more than 20 years, not since 1994's Beverly Hills Cop 3. Almost the entire time after that there have been reports that Beverly Hills Cop 4 could actually happen. And as we live and breathe, here in 2015, the project is still not dead, at least according to Brett Ratner. Pumping the National Geographic Channel series Breakthrough, where he directed one episode, Ratner appeared at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. Slashfilm caught up with the multi-hyphenate writer-director-producer, and one of the things they talked to him about was Beverly Hills Cop 4. He confirmed that this is indeed still in the works, and when asked about where they're at, he said: Working on the script, working on the script. It's a longer process. It's not easy. A lot of pressure on that one In addition to...

The cross-cultural comedy team up Rush Hour spawned three movies, though there hasn.t been one since 2007.s Rush Hour 3. In the ensuing years there have been sporadic rumblings that Rush Hour 4 could be in the works, and though he doesn.t rule out the possibility, director Brett Ratner says there is one key thing standing in the way: time. Ratner was at the Television Critics Association summer press tour to promote the National Geographic series Breakthrough, on which he directed an episode. When Slashfilm had the opportunity to catch up with the filmmaker, they asked about Rush Hour 4 he said: We.re always talking about it. We.ve just got to find the time between Chris Tucker, myself, and Jackie. If you.re familiar with the franchise, you are well aware that by "Jackie," Ratner means legendary martial artist Jackie Chan. And if you didn.t know that,...

Today at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Brett Ratner was on a panel for the National Geographic series Breakthrough. Ratner directed an episode of the series, focused on the human brain. After the panel, a few journalists approached Ratner for follow-ups and I asked him about the status of the Rush Hour franchise. […]

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Coming this fall, the National Geographic channel will present "Breakthrough," a new series produced by Imagine Entertainment and Asylum Entertainment. Executive produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Steve Michaels, Jonathan Koch and Mark Dowley, the series is an anthology about leading scientists and how their cutting-edge innovations and advancements will change our lives in the immediate future and beyond. The series intends to bring to life the stories, people and technology behind these breakthroughs, and show how they are changing our world. Each hour-long episode will be directed by a Hollywood filmmaker, and Angela Bassett is one of them. She joins...